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Howard Jacobson on Martin Amis: ‘His prose never begged to be loved – you either got it or you didn’t’ telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/ via
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🔴Jeremy Clarke, who has died at home in France aged 66, was The Spectator’s long-serving Low Life columnist.
Read the full obituary here: telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202
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Was worrying that the ending of my novel was unsatisfactory, but remembered that Wilkie Collins ended The Haunted Hotel like this:
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Jeremy Clarke, one of the most loved columnists in the history of The Spectator, died this morning at his home in Provence
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“It was so absorbing, in fact, that I had to give it up because I didn’t write a word of fiction once I was editor.”
Martin Amis on his time as literary editor of the New Statesman.
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RIP Jeremy Clarke, Low Life columnist who died this morning, lovely man, beautiful writer, he’s forever blowing bubbles
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High level banter from two of the greats. Clive James interviews Martin Amis. Pure Sunday bliss.
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In 1999 I approached Martin Amis at a signing & asked to interview him for my college magazine. To my amazement he said "Give me a call" & wrote his 0171 no. in this copy of The Information. He was so generous & patient with me, so unlike his reputation. Always loved him for that
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I was going to leave the men to it. But f*** it. Here’s a long interview with Mart by me, from 2006
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It’s what he would have wanted: all his obituaries to be written by Dan Brown
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I interviewed Martin Amis for the last edition of Word magazine in 2012. My job was to get him to divulge lessons he’d learned in life. He was surprisingly attentive, kind, not what I expected. I bet these words washed past me then. They don’t now. (I turned 45 in April.)
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The great British novelist Martin Amis, who has died at 73, had a true literary vitality that was high-spirited and farcical.
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A great interview with Martin Amis by from 2020, in which he talks about death, and why he didn't fear it
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Shocked and sad at the death of Martin Amis - the greatest, darkest, funniest satirist since Evelyn Waugh. If you want cheering up, re-read the tennis match in Money. RIP.
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Martin Amis’s literary voice was “instantly recognizable,” Salman Rushdie writes. “Only Martin sounded like Martin Amis, and it was unwise to try to imitate him.”
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I remember a teacher at school giving us the first page of Success for an exercise. I guess I was 14. Blew me away. Still love it. Genuinely the first time I realised that "literature" didn't just mean worthy hard hard work stuff that was no fun at all.
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Breaking News: The author Martin Amis has died at 73. His caustic, bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s. nyti.ms/3pTBTZv
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To paraphrase the man himself, writing about his own father, ‘What a lot of books you wrote, and what a lot of work you did. All this is you and is the best of you, and it is still here and I still have it.’
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Martin Amis, from Visiting Mrs Nabokov, a collection of his journalism. All of this is brilliant, but the magic is in the word "gravely"
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Breaking News: The author Martin Amis has died at 73. His caustic, bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s.
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'I've left cycling – losing to a trans rider hurts on a million different levels'
Exclusive interview with Hannah Arensman, the US champion cyclist who walked away from her sport aged 24, despairing at the unfairness of competing against biological males
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Andy Rourke's post-Smiths life may have been messy – but his distinctive, playful bass gave the dour Mancunians’ songs a dollop of fun
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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.
Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans.
We request privacy at this sad time
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"After a gruelling two hour chase, the paparazzi were finally able to escape from Harry and Meghan."
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Will Self has written a column about Adrian Chiles and Kath Viner. It the most furiously misogynistic thing I've read in years. theneweuropean.co.uk/my-obsession-w
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Do we think the leaders of Dubai might ask the thousands of Brits living there to embrace Arab values and speak Arabic?
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Right. Total and compete shutdown of Europe plus some random other countries until we can figure out what's going on
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Roger Taylor and Sam Ryder look like they're watching a huge Cylon fleet approaching the Battlestar Galactica.
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